= shuffle
The shuffle tracks button emoji is the universal ‘surprise me’ switch: two curved arrows crisscrossing like an X, sprinting right as if your playlist just chugged an espresso. It’s perfect for signaling random order, chaotic-good energy, or letting the algorithm pick the next adventure—musical, culinary, or life-choice-y. People drop it in captions when they’re feeling spontaneous, indecisive, or ironically resigned to whatever song/plot twist the universe serves. Meme culture loves it for the eternal “Spotify shuffle isn’t random” debate and for jokes about living life on RNG mode.
On Apple/iOS, you’ll spot two sleek, right-pointing arrows that cross midstream, with rounded tips and a clean, modern line weight—often rendered in a blue-toned, polished style that mirrors Apple’s media controls. It looks exactly like the Shuffle icon you’d tap in Music, which is why it shows up next to “queue roulette” posts and party DJ chaos. In texts, it can read as “mix it up,” “your pick,” or even flirty “surprise me 😉”—and in group chats, it’s the diplomatic way to say, “No decision? Hit shuffle.” When plans get messy, it’s also used sarcastically: welp, guess we’re shuffling life now.
Two twisted arrows pointing from left to right. A symbol or icon used to denote shuffle. When playing music with shuffle on, the music will be played out of order in a seemingly random order. Instead of playing music from track 1, then 2, then 3. A music player on shuffle may first play track 3, then 1, then 2. Also used to communicate "switching it up" or a plot twist. To do something differently than the method previously used.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1306 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture |  |
| Twitter.com Picture |  |
| LG Emoji Picture |  |
| Samsung Emoji Picture |  |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :twisted_rightwards_arrows: |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Twisted Rightwards Arrows |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | User Interface Symbols |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🔀 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🔀 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🔀 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🔀 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f500 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F500 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128256 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x94 0x80 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 94 80 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 224 200 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD00 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd00 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56576 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F500 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F500 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128256 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F500" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x94\x80" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD00" |
